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by HughM388
Sun Jul 26, 2020 8:04 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q16 - Environmentalist: Many people prefer
Replies: 20
Views: 8971
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Re: Q16 - Environmentalist: Many people prefer

The problem I had—and have—with this question is that when evaluating (B) (I had already chosen (E) but went back and forth between them for some time) I considered any and all new businesses to be "local industries." As far as was concerned, once a business is established in a region, it'...
by HughM388
Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:56 pm
 
Forum: Section #4 (Not Included in LSAT-Flex Version)
Topic: Q11 - The Company's supply chain will develop
Replies: 5
Views: 584
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Re: Q11 - The Company's supply chain will develop

Ship's captain: Abandon ship! Abandon ship! You will all die if you don't abandon ship! (Meanwhile, some people say corduroy is a nice fabric, but I say denim is superior. Just imagine: someone preferring corduroy over denim! That person would be guilty of the most grossly indecent taste.) All ye wh...
by HughM388
Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:58 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q25 - Direct-mail advertising usually consists
Replies: 5
Views: 545
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Re: Q25 - Direct-mail advertising usually consists

It's a pretty feeble strengthener, but I suppose that's what we're dealing with at the back end of a LR section. If most of the products purchased via direct mail were going to be purchased online anyway (probably on Amz), then it hardly matters to the argument, as direct mail's environmental impact...
by HughM388
Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:39 pm
 
Forum: Section #3
Topic: Q21- Prolonged exposure to sulfur flames
Replies: 6
Views: 1506
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Re: Q21- Prolonged exposure to sulfur flames

I think this question employs one of the tactics LSAC uses to make questions more difficult, especially in the later part of LR sections. I mention it here to help remind myself and others to beware of it. The test-writers will use misdirection and suggestion (as they did in another question on whic...
by HughM388
Mon Aug 03, 2020 2:02 pm
 
Forum: Section #3
Topic: Q23 - Art Historian: This painting, purportedly by Mary Cass
Replies: 6
Views: 3044
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Re: Q23 - Art Historian: This painting, purportedly by Mary Cass

Hi, I also had the same question as csunnerberg13 above. So I was left with (A) and (B) but chose (B) because of the words "readily available" in (A). I thought it could have been difficult for others to find certain canvas and materials that Cassatt was using, hence not "readily ava...
by HughM388
Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:26 am
 
Forum: Section #3
Topic: Q1 - Curator: Critics have rightly claimed
Replies: 7
Views: 1981
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Re: Q1 - Curator: Critics have rightly claimed

I'm afraid the principle being applied by the correct answer here does little to justify the conclusion, and to assuage our concerns about the survival of the frescoes for future generations. Even if the frescoes cannot currently be viewed as they were originally in Michelangelo's day (if that's eve...
by HughM388
Sat Aug 01, 2020 5:24 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q20 - Daniel: There are certain actions that moral duty
Replies: 10
Views: 5099
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Re: Q20 - Daniel: There are certain actions that moral duty

Based on what the stimulus tells us, I still don't see how we can conclude that Daniel and Carrie disagree about (D). To arrive at (D) we need to make a fairly audacious inference—which for an identify-the-disagreement question seems illicit, even if the question is at the back end of the section. P...
by HughM388
Wed Jul 29, 2020 7:23 pm
 
Forum: Section #3
Topic: Q14 - Council member: I recommend that
Replies: 17
Views: 5263
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Re: Q14 - Council member: I recommend that

Credit to the LSAC for yet another terrible question that plays on the ambiguities of language and understanding rather than on the actual understanding of the inherent logical error of the stimulus. I wouldn't say it has to do with an ambiguity of the language, but I agree with you that it's a pre...
by HughM388
Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:06 am
 
Forum: Section #1
Topic: Q6 - After an oil spill
Replies: 16
Views: 7757
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Re: Q6 - After an oil spill

Though (B) is pretty clearly the best answer of the lot, I want to say I vehemently disdain the use of the word "estimate" here. By enumerating a series of excruciatingly precise figures (357, 222, 18 percent, etc.), the person speaking in the stimulus is doing anything but estimating. In ...
by HughM388
Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:16 pm
 
Forum: Passage #2 - Roy Lichtenstein
Topic: Q11
Replies: 16
Views: 6321
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Re: PT 42 S3 Q11: An example in keeping with the spirit

Thanks for posting, shadowclad! A few thoughts on your choice by choice commentary: (A) sure. still lifes? no way. (B) i don't think we know that L used simple forms. Though pop artists used "simple black lines," Lichtenstein's forms were "stylized" and "cartoonish," w...
by HughM388
Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:41 am
 
Forum: Section #1
Topic: Q16 - Poppy petals function to attract
Replies: 5
Views: 2862
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Re: Q16 - Poppy petals function to attract

Is it fair to ask that, since it is a most-strongly-support question, we should not suppose that "all necessary nutrients" provided by the cutter (or the subsequent nutrient provider) of the poppy might include certain nutrients that, though not present in the uncut poppy's "natural&q...
by HughM388
Sun Jul 26, 2020 4:18 pm
 
Forum: Section #4
Topic: Q20 - A recenty study suggests that
Replies: 12
Views: 4579
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Re: Q20 - A recenty study suggests that

To create a different type of LSAT question from the information in this question we could say: "The above information, if true, allows one to conclude: People who drink twenty-one glasses of wine per week derive an overall health benefit from that drinking in the form of reduced risk of stroke...
by HughM388
Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:05 pm
 
Forum: Section #1
Topic: Q13 - James: Many people claim that
Replies: 10
Views: 3670
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Re: Q13 - James: Many people claim that

I am with sch6les on this one – the assumption that needs to be strengthened is that Reade is most popular because of his DISCUSSION of complex issues (not because of Reade's POSITIONS on those issues). By saying that Reade’s competitors also discuss some of those issues, answer (A) allows us to se...
by HughM388
Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:42 pm
 
Forum: Section #3
Topic: Q23 - A television manufacturing plant
Replies: 17
Views: 6023
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Re: Q23 - A television manufacturing plant

This question and its correct answer do a very slippery thing that gives rise to the difficulty people are experiencing with it, and I don't think any of the explanations here have addressed it. One of other answer choices is perhaps vaguely tempting, and while the presence of competing answers does...
by HughM388
Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:18 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q14 - Activist: Although the environmental
Replies: 7
Views: 2673
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Re: Q14 - Activist: Although the environmental

The activist referred to the bill clearly and specifically as an "environmental bill"—thereby making the explicit consideration that there are quite possibly environmental, and therefore "noneconomic," consequences to the bill. Why else describe the very nature of the bill? If th...
by HughM388
Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:49 am
 
Forum: Section #4
Topic: Q12 - Surrealist: Many artists mistakenly
Replies: 6
Views: 2099
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Re: Q12 - Surrealist: Many artists mistakenly

The correct answer choice here contains a pretty glaring grammatical problem that radically changes the meaning of the sentence. To say that an artist "should not merely represent objects" does not at all capture what the surrealist is saying, as many test-takers may have explicitly discer...
by HughM388
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:01 pm
 
Forum: Section #1
Topic: Q25 - McKinley: A double-blind study
Replies: 18
Views: 6701
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Re: Q25 - McKinley: A double-blind study

Hey Deedub, I thought I just answered that! : ) The outcome, as described here, would be whether or not the drug works to cure the underlying condition. Remember, the point of a drug test is to see if the drug is effective in treating the condition it was designed to treat. Whether it has side effe...
by HughM388
Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:15 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q17 - Commissioner: I have been incorrectly
Replies: 8
Views: 3400
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Re: Q17 - Commissioner: I have been incorrectly

Would someone be kind enough to locate where the stimulus states that the commissioner is agreeing with the neighborhood association's current recommendation for the power plant? According to the stimulus he "based" his decision on the NA's report—but that in no way, shape, or form implies...
by HughM388
Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:54 am
 
Forum: Passage #1 - Jury Unanimity
Topic: Q1
Replies: 3
Views: 1205
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Re: Q1

An apt analogy for this question, and for how LSAC write RC questions, is as follows. "John's favorite color is red." According to the passage, which of the following is John's favorite color? (A) Clouds (B) Squirrels (C) Briskly (D) Purple (E) Motivation By the way, the correct answer is ...
by HughM388
Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:43 pm
 
Forum: Section #2
Topic: Q8 - Conscientiousness is high on most
Replies: 10
Views: 3528
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Re: Q8 - Conscientiousness is high on most

Hey Guys, There are two questions here, so I'll take them separately. MayMay: Yes, your point is great. Another way to think of it: Some people will perform badly at interviews no matter what. This gives us one reason. But that doesn't really tell us why the conscientious people are WORSE than the ...